Comment on changes in sex ratio in neural tube defects since food fortification with folic acid: re "hypothesis: the female excess in cranial neural tube defects reflects an epigenetic drag of the inactivating X chromosome on the molecular mechanisms of neural tube fold elevation"

Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2012 Nov;94(11):958. doi: 10.1002/bdra.23090. Epub 2012 Nov 2.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Epigenesis, Genetic / physiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neural Crest / embryology*
  • Neural Tube Defects / epidemiology*
  • Neural Tube Defects / genetics*
  • X Chromosome Inactivation / physiology*